Filing Appeals When Your Health Insurance Claim Has Been Denied (Including Payment for HIPEC Treatment) If your health insurance provider/company has denied your request for coverage for payment for HIPEC, you may need to file an appeal. Sometimes...

How to Select a Surgeon Part II This week we received two comments at the Pals' desk that raised red flags among those of us who promote patient self-advocacy. A patient, who has talked with several other patients throughout our Network, offered the...

Preparing for Surgery: Pre and Post Op Hotel Accommodations Many appendix cancer patients, and their family caregivers, travel long distances for specialized medical care, and, in doing so, opt to stay in a hotel near their cancer treatment center...

Cancer Cure Tips Part II The PMP Pals’ Network continues this series of articles in which those of our fellow Pal Patients who are disease free (clinically determined to have experienced no recurrence or indication of cancer for five or more years)...

Raising a Teen, While Dad is on Chemo One of the most popular programs within the PMP Pals’ Network is our Young Families’ Resource Group. This program includes cancer patients who are raising children from infancy through high school. One such...